Magic The Gathering

Wow, there's really nobody else on PA that plays Magic The Gathering?!

I've been building and experimenting with the new M15 cards like crazy. I really enjoy making and playing with five-color decks, and I've almost got my latest one down pat. Lots of playing and experimenting with the lady (yes, she plays; I'm one lucky guy).

Nobody else here plays this game? I kind of find that hard to believe! 

Meltdowner wrote: I started playing MTG two years ago on the Innistrad block. I have a white/green human and angels deck and a blue/white aura deck.

Awesome! Sounds like a great combination. I tweaked my five-color deck yesterday, and it's definitely improving. My biggest issue is keeping enough guys on the battlefield to block/counter while I ramp up mana to get my green monsters (Terra Stomper x 2 and several others I forget the names of) casted and out. It's a very well-rounded deck, and I have all sorts of spell counters and blocks to knock opponents off their guard when they try and exile my big guys .

What are you running for a deck? 

Totally understandable. I don't feel that I'm ready to play with strangers yet, as I still have several questions about the rules. We're going to a Friday Night Magic session tonight just to watch other people play. I feel like that's a really smart idea to understand the game more clearly!

Ironically, I built a monster green deck last night with the 2015 fat pack we just got; it's super brutal, and massive growth gets played like crazy lol. Yes, they do indeed have amazing mana ramping, especially the elf creatures who can be tapped as extra manna. My gf plays a red/black deck that has all sorts of destroy target creature cards, and she used to kick my ass constantly, Now I've got a plethora of huge trampling creatures that she can only keep at bay for so long, lol.

Some of my personal favorite cards in my green deck:

^Super awesome come-back card 

We also checked out Friday Night Magic in town last evening, and it looks like a promising community. I want to really get my deck to where I want it before I start playing with randoms. I don't quite have the confidence in the rule set to not look like a noob .

I also got a bunch of Sliver cards in said fat pack, and I totally want to make a five-color Sliver-driven deck in the future when I get the other colors!

That 4 vs 4 game sounds intense; that's still WAY over my head at this point .

^YES, that card is excellent! I've found that I seem to like Theros best out of all the spin-offs, as well. Im constructing a killer blue deck as we speak. 

I can't wait to test it out tonight .

Lmao, exactly. I'm definitely a counter-driven player; I like knowing what the hell is coming instead of betting my precious mana costs. I love setting up traps for my opponent to walk into, then hitting them with a counter, an instant, a sorcery, and then another instant while they're starting their next turn .

Tons of mana is crucial to a good blue deck.

I definitely like doing that with red-driven decks; that have an advantage in that area for sure. However, there's much fulfillment to be had when playing an aggro player who thinks they can just mow through you, and you're two turns ahead/stocked, and deliver an incredible combo .

As an aquarius, I find it hilarious that I'm drawn to the theme/advantages of the blue cards. My gf is an aries, and is also drawn to the powers of red. Intelligent game designers, if you ask me, lol.

^That's nuts! Ah, red deck games 

1 Coral Barrier

1 Trained Condor

2 Wall of Frost

4 Frost Lynx

2 Nimbus of the Isles

1 Prescient Chimera 

1 Mahamoti Djinn

2 Bronze Sable

2 Omen Speaker

1 Aetherspouts 

4 Divination 

2 Jace's Ingenuity

2 Negate

2 Peel from Reality

1 Turn to Frog

1 Mind Sculpt

1 Cancel

1 Retraction Helix

1 Void Snare

1 Hydrosurge

1 Spellblast

1 Staff of the Mind Magus

1 Invisibility

24 Islands